Rock And Roll
Rock and roll is the energetic dance music that emerged in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s from rhythm and blues, country and gospel.
The classic sound is a strong backbeat, twelve-bar blues chord patterns, electric guitar or piano in the lead and sometimes saxophone. Songs are short, fast and made for dancing. It was marketed above all to teenagers, and all later rock grew from it. The term today usually means this original 1950s style.
Artists it is known for: Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Buddy Holly.
- Family
- Rock
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United States, late 1940s to early 1950s
- Also called
- rock 'n' roll, rock & roll
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 6%
About 4,700 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have rock and roll among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Rock And Roll artists
AC/DC
Led Zeppelin
Elvis Presley
Beach Weather
Paul Anka
Chuck Berry
Bobby Darin
Roy Orbison
Hank WilliamsThe rock and roll artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.